Tie-holding pin



G. WOTHERSPOON.

TIE HOLDING PIN.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.25, 1919.

1,333,362. v Patented Mar.-9,1920.

GEORGE wornnnsroon, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TIE-HOLDING rm.

Specification of Letters Patent.- Patented Mar. 9, 1920.

Application filed March 25, 1919. Serial No. 234,957.

To all whom it may concern,

Be it known that I, GEORGE WOTI-IERSPOON, a citizen of the United States, and resident of New York, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Tie- 'lolding Pin, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a pm of very simple and inexpensive construction which is especially adapted to be supported on a collar button in front of a collar in such position as to hold a tie in its upper position-o1" movement and to prevent the tie from sliding downwardly on the collar, which pin, by simple adjustment on the button, may be used to hold a tie from sliding upwardly.

A further object is to provide such a pin having an especially adapted engaging member designed to slide readily upon a collar button shank in such manner that when installed it cannot slide over the head of the button and will not slide off the collar button shank, which pin has a cross member or other suitable means so that when the point of the pin is stuck into a tie and the engaging member is extended over the collar button shank, the pin will not become accidentally removed.

With these and other objects in view, my invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of the various parts of the device, whereby the objects contemplated are attained, as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in my claim, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which: s

Figure 1 shows a plan view of a tie holding pin embodying my invention, and

Fig. 2 shows a side elevation of a neck tie and portion or a collar equipped with my tie holding pin.

My improved tie holding pin comprises a substantially straight shank indicated in the accompanylng drawings by the rotorence numeral 10, having near its point 11 a cross member 12, the purpose of which will be hereinafter more fully referred to.

Mounted on the end or the shank 10 opposite the point 11 thereof, is a collar button engaging member comprising a keeper or engaging device 13% having in general LL shaped outline and having its arms inclined downwardly and laterally wlth relation to the pin. The upper arm is shorter than the lower arm, and near its free end has a portion 14 projecting toward the other arm, as illustrated in Fig. 1.

' In the practical use of my improved tie holding pin, it is used in connection with a collar 15, a collar button 16 and neck tie 17. t is used for holding the tie up and preventing the tie from slipping down'on the collar. When so used the point 11 is extended upwardly into the tie. near the collar. It is obvious that the cross member 12 will limit the distance which the point can be extended into the tie. The shank of the collar button 16 enters the keeper 13 between the arms thereof.

The tie and collar button should be pressed apart somewhat before installing Y the pin, and when the parts are installed as above mentioned, the shank 10 will extend directly upwardly above the shank of the collar button. The weight of the tie will tend to hold the keeper member 13 pro erly on the collar button.

The device is designed to be of such size that'the head of the collar button will not pass between the arms of the keeper member 13.

The shape or" the armsof the keeper 13 is such that any side movement or" the tle or pin will not remove the pin from the collar button. 1

Thus it will be seen that while the shape of the keeper member 13 is such as to per-j mit the keeper to be slipped onto the collar 7 button shank from the side and l in the easlest way, yet when the pinhas been once installed it cannot be accldentally removed.

although it is easy to remove with the proper manipulation.

I claim as my invention:

A pin for supporting neck ties orcra ats comprising a shank having a. pointed end extended upwardly when the pin is in use;

a bar secured to said pin near its pointed end, and a substantially U-shaped member at the lower end of said pin; the arms 01": said lJ-shaped member being inclined away from said pin downwardly and laterally when the pin is in use in vertical position;

said arms -forming a yoke with the upper'i arm shorter than the lower arm, and havin f at its free end a portion projectingtowanc lv the lower arm for forming a. contracted neck between the outer ends of said arms. Des Moines, Iowa, January 8, 1919.

GEORGE WOTHERSPOON. 

